Misleading
Thursday 30 November 2023
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”Heavy military vehicles at rathmines, #dublin #dublinriots #ireland #ira #army #military #rathmines #dublintiktok #dublincity”
Social media users deceptively implied routine movements of army vehicles were linked to Dublin riots while sharing old footage to falsely claim military was deployed to quell unrest. -
“It is not Russia, but Ukraine that has publicly announced that it is withdrawing from the negotiation process. Moreover, the country’s leader signed an executive order prohibiting such negotiations with Russia."
Putin started the war on Ukraine. He can end it at any time by ordering the Russian troops to withdraw and by ending the occupation. -
"How many Palestinians are to die for this war to end? Are 10,000 dead in 30 days enough? That's more than those who died over 530 days in Ukraine."
U.N. verified at least 9,701 civilian deaths in Ukraine by September. Kyiv maintains the figures are ten-fold higher. The 11,000 deaths in Gaza are not independently verified. They also do not differentiate between combatant and civilian casualties. -
“I cannot leave unmentioned the hypocrisy of the US and its allies… All they can do is to keep saying about Israel’s alleged right for self-defense, which, as an occupying state, it does not have, as was confirmed by the [UN] International Court consultative ruling in 2004.”
The 2004 International Court of Justice decision has no bearing on the Gaza Strip and Israel's or any occupying country's right to self-defense. -
“…nuclear arms control is a special responsibility of the U.S. and Russia.”
China is projected to have 1500 operational nuclear warheads by 2035, a number on par with those deployed by Russia and the U.S. -
“This video proves that it is the US side that is making provocations, taking risks and muddling the water.”
The Chinese Ministry of National Defense's video shows an unrelated incident from August, yet even that footage was cut to mislead. -
“…the Belt and Road Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping 10 years ago has been a huge success and is now a widely recognized major international public goods.”
The Belt and Road Initiative has been largely successful in increasing China’s influence on the international stage, yet scientists and environmentalists warn the initiative could have immediate biophysical impacts and cause irreversible environmental damage. -
Washington maintains it is capable of meeting Israel’s and Ukraine’s defense needs.
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“The Japanese are so good at bragging, 20 million (Chinese) travelers?...If there were indeed 20 million Chinese going to Japan, the Japanese won’t dare to sleep at night!”
Japanese news media reported a surge of Chinese visitors during China’s National Day holiday, but not that there would be 20 million Chinese travelers arriving in Japan. -
"Voice of America chose this image to accompany the story about the beginning of official operation of BRI train in Indonesia."
X user digitally altered a screenshot of the report to attribute it to VOA’s news center, which never published such a piece. The picture was the VOA’s Mandarin/Cantonese service’s web poster’s error later corrected with an editor’s note. -
“China ... urges relevant countries to immediately lift all illegal unilateral sanctions against Syria.”
Unilateral sanctions are not backed by a United Nations resolution but are legal according to the laws of the country that imposes them. -
"The American judiciary is a full-fledged judiciary. So is the judiciary of Turkey. And you have to respect that. We are a state of law, and inside that state of law, this is how we lived, and this is how we will keep on living."
Despite claims of judicial independence, Erdogan has used Turkey’s courts to target dissent.